Sort completion list#96
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#### Legacy mode: ```console $ irb --legacy irb(main):001:0> l[TAB][TAB] lambda load local_variables loop ``` #### Before this patch: ```console $ irb irb(main):001:0> l[TAB][TAB] local_variables loop lambda load ``` #### After this patch: ```console $ irb irb(main):001:0> l[TAB][TAB] lambda load local_variables loop ```
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Method completion candidates ([:call], [:call_or_const], [:lvar_or_method]) were returned in reflection order, which is an artifact of the method table and not even definition order. This looked random in the completion dialog: e.g. for an ActiveRecord model, `user.email_address` was listed after all its generated variants like `email_address_before_last_save`. Constants, ivars and symbols were already sorted, and the readline-style menu was sorted in ruby/reline#96, as was part of the regexp completor in ruby/irb#379 (fixing ruby/irb#349). This extends the same policy to all candidate kinds by sorting once at the exit point of completion_candidates, which also makes the per-branch sorts redundant, so they are removed. Plain alphabetical order would rank internal methods (__id__, __send__, Rails' _run_commit_callbacks etc.) first when completing an empty method name, because underscore precedes letters in ASCII. Candidates starting with an underscore are therefore sorted after the rest. The rule is applied to the full name before the typed prefix is stripped, so it only affects completions where the leading underscore is actually typed-visible.
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